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by maze-le 2633 days ago
Doesn't that mean, that Monsanto and Bayer were both hopelessly overvalued by the time of the acquisition? I wonder which other company-valuations are overblown only by the image a they have (cough ... facebook ... cough).

Metrics beyond "observables" -- assets, infrastructure, patents -- seem to be impossible, when considering investments, i.e. how much of these values are pure speculation (?). On the other hand -- these lawsuits were also "observable", but not really "measurable".